The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Cholera has appeared in Sicily.

New York's retail liquor dealers are boy
cotting the pool brewers.
State of siege has been proclaimed at all
Bulgarian towns on the Danube.
EN-Alderman ONeill was taken to Sing
Sing prison to serve out his sentence.
Cotton Seed Oil Trust certificates mc be
ing largely dealt in in the money market.
Two negro inccndiarics were hanged at
Sidon, Miss, yesterday by Il mob.
There is Il split between the new German
Liberals and Socialists.
Fifteen buildings and contents were dc
stroycd ut South Boston, Va. Loss, $780,
600.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton of Daniel Magonc rs Collector of Gus
toms at New York.
Bccdc & Bray, lumber dealers of Mime
apOliS, Mimi, have assigned. Liabilities
from 500, 600 to $50, GOO.
The British Parliament has been asked
to grant another quarter of Il million pounds
for the expense of the navy.
The Texas Investigation goes monOto-
nOuSly On. 1t will have been completed in
due time for the fall campaign.
The National Printers Protective Fra
tcrnity are in session ut Kansas City. The
convention VIII last three days.
In the Texas investigation, counsel for
the prosecution commenced the submission
OF evidence in rcbuttal.
The compositors on all the newspapers
and job offices in Milwaukee, Wis, went
out on Il strike for an advance of D cents in
the price Of composition.
Mir. Armour and his party arc in the
south with Il view Of establishing cotton
seed oil mills, in opposition to the American
Cotton Oil Trust Company.
Adams Express Company has extended
its service over the entire system Of the
Ohio and Mississippi railway, amounting
10 upwards Of Cps agencies.
The Hungarian delegation have unani.
mously voted urgency for the special mill
tary credit, and referred the matter TO the
Budget Committee without debate.
The National Zcitung says a third dona-
ton OF $500 has been received from
American Socialists to assist in the election
of socialist candidates to the RcichStag.
At Winchester, Va, Sunday night was
one of the scvcrcst nights of the winter.
the thermometer going down to 1G degrees,
with the wind blowing a gale.
Tho Queen of Spain has signed a decree
making 20 per cent. reduction in the export
duties on sugar and tobacco shipped from
Cuba.
General j. j. Finley, of Ocala, Fla, has
been appointed by Governor Perry United
States Senator 10 succeed the Hon. Charles
w. Jones.
Adviccs from st. Eticnuc. France. say
that 40 men are still cntOmbcd in the Bcatii
ran collicriCs, and that there is no hope of
recovering them.
Fire at Thrcc-Niic Bay, Jefferson county
\. y, destroyed large part of the town.
The loss aggregates about 500, 900: insur-
ance $50, 600.
The Academy of Music, New York, was
sold ut auction to VIM. b. DinSmorc, Pres
idcnt of the Adams Express Company, for
$500, 600. What will be done with it is not
learned.
The Queen of Roumania, ii is said. fire..
qucntly delivers private lectures to her
maids. Othcr women arc very like the
Queen, only they do not continc their
lectures to their maids.
Speaker Carlisle is being urged by his
friends to decline the Spcakcrship next
year and assume the free trade leadership
ON the floor, with the expectation of walk
ing into the White House thereafter.
The negro boy who saved five lives in
the Gardiner disaster ON the Alabama river
Is Bcbc McCaw, of Mobile. He has n
reputation for cool courage, and his recent
horOism elected high praise from all quar-
tiers.
Mrs. Edminstcr and son, living six miles
rom Henry, Dakota, left that town on
Friday with a horse and sleigh. They
were found Sunday frozen to death ten
rod from the home of Il ncighbor.
a petition from the merchants and bust.
ness men of Providence, II. l., represent.
ing about $40, 600, 600, was presented to the
Rhode Island General Assembly asking for
The repeal of the prohibitory liquor law.
The Western Iron Association met nj,
l'ittsburg, Pa, and reatirmcd the card rate
to the great disappointment of the iron
workmen, who had anticipated an advance
IN the price and a corresponding increase
in wages.
An inccndiary fire occurred at Floyd
court house, Va, destroying the livery STA.
blcs of T. Jet, burning II horses and Il
yoke of oxen, besides a large quantity of
forage and farming implements. No in
surancc. Loss not known.
a new trOtting association has been or.
gained at Detroit, Michigan. The States
represented arc Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
SoLhIcCtiCut, W ISCOuSit, new Ofk, Kan.
Sas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa., Missouri,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Dispatches received from Sofia say that
the troops Of the garrison of Silistria re.
VOTED yesterday evening and pronounced
against the regency. Troops are marching
TO SiliStria from Rustchuk, Varna and
Shumla to Qucll the mutiny.
The steamer Gaelic from China and Ja.
pan, which arrived at San francisco Mon.
day, reports that Il Chinese Junk. bound
from lIainiu for Siam, has been wrecked.
and that out of 600 persons, comprising
her passengers and crew, only six arc known
to have escaped.
The Tennessee Senate has rejected the
bill appropriating 81, 800 to aid in the cree.
ton by the Southern States of a monu.
mcnt the memory of George Peabody, the
philanthropist. The measure was dis.
cusscd at length and defeated by a vote of
If to 10.
The New York and Southern Telegraph
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